Hi: I was visiting the Biography Resouce Center through my local library site and came across this Hinds listed below. Note that his parents names are included. There were about eight Hinds listed as contemporary writers but I am sending only the ones that had the names of the parents listed. Regards Nan 71532.734@compuserve.com ====================================== Asher Crosby Hinds 1863-1919 Birth: February 6, 1863 in Maine, United States Death: May 1, 1919 Occupation: Congressman, Parliamentarian Source: Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Hinds, Asher Crosby (Feb. 6, 1863 - May 1, 1919), congressman and parliamentarian, was born at Benton, Me. His parents, Albert D. and Charlotte (Flagg) Hinds, died when he was still a boy. He was educated in the common schools of Benton, attended Coburn Classical Institute for a year, and graduated at Colby College in 1883. Soon after graduation he went to Portland and joined the staff of the Portland Daily Advertiser, of which a kinsman, Hobart W. Richardson, was then editor. First he learned the printer's trade, then, upon being made a reporter, he was so successful that in 1885 he was invited to join the Portland Daily Press. He was actively engaged on this journal for a number of years and at the same time acquired an interest in its ownership. His first acquaintance with legislative operations appears to have been gained soon after he joined the Press, when he covered a session of the Maine legislature and was said to have started an agitation for the removal of the capital to Portland which was defeated only by the intervention of James G. Blaine. When Thomas B. Reed became speaker in the Fifty-first Congress in 1889 he appointed Hinds speaker's clerk, but the adverse results of the elections of 1890 and 1892 relegated him again to his editorial duties. When Reed again became speaker in 1895, Hinds was promoted to the post of clerk at the speaker's table and at the advice of the speaker, who desired to make the position one of dignity and importance, began the study of parliamentary law and procedure. The diligence and capacity which Hinds displayed in this work made him an invaluable assistant to Speakers Reed, Henderson, and Cannon, and he retained his post at the speaker's table from 1895 to 1911. During his incumbency he was able to bring to completion his monumental work: Hinds' Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States (1907-08), published as House Document 355, 59 Congress, 2 Session. This study had had its modest beginnings in a scrapbook in which he posted the rulings of various speakers and other useful material for consultation and had been preceded in 1899 by the publication of a valuable manual on the rules and practices of the House (House Document 576, 55 Cong., 2 Sess.). In its final form, containing five volumes of more than a thousand pages each, with a multitude of citations covering the entire history of the House, together with three additional volumes of index and digest, it constituted a work of unique importance. "His great work," says the historian of the House, "happily combines minuteness of research with wideness of vision. Nothing seems to have escaped his eye, or to have blurred his appreciation of the historic value of the slightest incident. . . . Congress should ever be proud that it possessed a teacher whose constructive work must always remain its richest heritage" (D. S. Alexander, History and Procedure of the House of Representatives, 1916, Preface, p. xiv). Hinds succeeded Amos Allen as representative of the 1st Maine district in 1911, but his health had broken under the strain of labors on the Precedents and his career as a member of the House (1911-17) was not conspicuous. It is also a matter of regret that failing strength had obliged him to abandon a projected biography of Speaker Reed which he would have been admirably qualified to write. His death took place in Washington, D. C. He had married Harriet Louise Estey of Roslindale, Mass., Sept. 3, 1891. -- William Alexander Robinson FURTHER READINGS [A. H. Hinds, Hist. and Geneal. of the Hinds Family (1899); G. T. Little, Geneal. and Family Hist. of the State of Me. (1909), III, 1537-39; Who's Who in America, 1918-19; N. Y. Times, May 3, 1919; Portland Daily Press, May 3, 8, 1919; Portland Evening Express and Advertiser, May 10, 1919.] SOURCE CITATION "Asher Crosby Hinds."Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: The Gale Group. 2004. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC Document Number: Update this biography (listee only). _______ Document 1 of 1 _______